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this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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I believe there's been real progress in the Sahel in western Africa. Iirc it involves more than just planting trees but full on land management like having grazing livestock graze in newly forested areas.
I think I watched a documentary about planting trees in the dessert, might have been Gobi? Dessert… I think that’s in china… pretty sure it was Chinese pretty wild they were literally on giant sand dunes
The Gobi is in China (and Mongolia, it covers most of the border between them). It's actually quite possible that the documentary was about the same project as this article, though. The Taklamakan is either next to the Gobi or just the western part of the Gobi depending on who you ask